Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Motives. French labor unionists, rallying behind a surprisingly forceful new Premier, Robert Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS),hamstrung a Communist maneuver to paralyze France with strikes. After a week of tension in which the fate of the Fourth Republic hung in the balance, French workers were pouring back to their jobs, disregarding the pleas of Communist leaders...
...Elis held their final practice of the year on the Bowl gridiron just before dusk. The squad looked balanced and high-spirited despite its shattering defeats of the past two weekends. Earlier in the afternoon on the same gridiron Harvard was cheerful and showed no signs of tension as the 38-man visiting team held its last warmup before the big game...
...club, the tension unavoidably brought out personality. A somewhat thyroid spinster from Lahore passed around the manuscript of a sex novel she had been working on. One handlebar-mustached old colonel, who had spent 40 seasons in Kashmir, refused to leave. Said he: "Good God, no! I'll just pull my houseboat over another mile or so and forget the trouble." The Hindu pianist who played an Indian version of boogie woogie at the houseboat-cabaret Bluebird had a different solution. He bought a new, heavy, imported Scotch tweed suit with heavy overcoat and tweed cap. Asked...
Fragrance Without Substance. But while lighting up obscure corners of the past and its unremembered versifiers and belle-lettrists, Brooks seems unable to evoke the accumulating tension of U.S. life during the '50s and '60s. The Civil War itself plays no role in his book except insofar as it impinges on Whitman's personal development. In his eagerness to recreate the fragrance and colors of the past, Brooks impatiently skips those struggles of the mind and body that comprised its substance. There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln...
...week's end, the average restaurant operator was developing ulcers, anxiety and severe tension. Most of them piously -and some even happily-guaranteed compliance. Hollywood's phony prince, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff (who sometimes allows his bulldog to sit up at the table with him and eat meat), said: "I will do anything to avoid the horrors of rationing." Some did it glumly. Manhattan's famed steak house, Gallagher's, closed on Tuesday, ran a newspaper ad which read:, "No Steaks, No Gallagher's." But in most cases it was not quite that simple...